The measure. The road obama hit wednesday one day after his state of the union vow to take executive action to republicans thwart his efforts on economic progress. Speaking in maryland, obama touted his plan to boost the minimum wage a federal contractors to 10. 10 an hour. Some of my ideas i will need congress, but america cant just stand still if congress isnt doing anything. Am not going to stand still either. Take steps to expand opportunity for more families, im going to do it with or without congress. Nobody who works fulltime should ever have to raise a family in poverty. [applause] and that is why i firmly believe it is time to give america a raise. Obama is also backing a congressional bill that would raise the minimum wage for all americans to 10. 10 an hour, but a new analysis from the center for economic and policy Research Says that if the minimum wage were kept in line with productivity gains since 1968, it would now be more than double that amount at 21. 72 an hour. Dire
Incident is investigated. We reached out to the bright eyes director on the phone who said no comment. The state says there have been no complaints against bright eyes since 2008. Blaney says shes not sure if her child will go back to the center. As for amari, he seemed more interested in our camera than why we were talking to his mom. So glad hes safe. Now to new developments on the firefighters who allegedly refused to respond to a man suffering from a heart attack right across the street. That 77yearold man died and now the lieutenant at the center of this investigation has put in her retirement papers. Surae chinn is live in northwest. Youve been following this story since the beginning and heres yet a new development. Reporter well, the district Public Safety office is trying to decide whether to accept the resignation of lieutenant Kellene Davis. Were in front of her house tonight no. One has come to the door. We did catch up with the mayor today. Heres what he said. Are you plea
About 50 years old and worked in this neighborhood for years. We really love him and miss him. Reporter what kind of guy is he . He likes working on tvs. Reporter police canvassed the neighborhood looking for the gunman or any who might know what happened. While they dont have a motive for the shooting, they say they dont believe theres any reason for the community to be concerned a gunman is on the loose. It seems to be an isolated incident related only to this store here. Reporter you can see the store remains locked up tight this evening. The only signs anything happened here these medical supplies left by paramedics who treated the victim. We are told by police he remains in Critical Condition at a local hospital and so far police have no motive what happened here. Reporting live in northwest, mark segraves, news 4. Traffic is moving in atlanta now after it came to a stand still after 10 hours. Six people were dead in weather related traffic accidents across the south. As the gridl
People in general terms. He expresses thoughts of wanting to die. He says hes ready to die. He says his plan is set but does not indicate what hes riveri g to. In the end, he jesapologys to h family about what hes going to do. The gun used by the shooter was a 12 gauge mossberg shotgun like this and can be broken down into pieces shorter than 18 inches. Today, Howard County police say they believe aguilar did just that to conceal the gun in his backpack so he could carry it into the mall. Inside a dressing room at zumiez, he put together the shotgun and walked into the store and shot at two employees, then turned the gun on himself. Police say theres no camera in the store and no actual footage of the shooting in the store. Today, i talked to keith vaughn. He works at zumys and said he would sometimes skateboard with aguilar and remembers aguilar hanging out at the mall. He comes in and out of the store. I dont remember him hanging out there. Its a mall. A lot of people come to the mal
Lets go to these live pictures. The storm paralyzing the south is causing problems even now at this hour in georgia, and alabama, roads that were parking lots 24 hours ago are slowly starting to clear. Thats not a bad shot. But if you look here. Helicopters have been searching those who are still strands and children are escor escorted home where hundreds more spent the night on school buses. There have been 800 traffic accidents, six people have died. Robert, im looking at these pictures here, i dont know how much of a rush hour there has been in downtown atlanta, but on one side of the road it looks like there is a bit of clearing and things are starting to look better. Most people said they were going to stay home and not go to work, telling officials they were not going to use the icy roads. There are those still stranded here as many across the metro area, but i would say this, today we havent gone above freezing but weve gotten to a certain mark where the sunshine was out, and i